Some idiot called into Rushs’ show awhile back and said that the oil companies got together with Nixon and Reagan and got Stephen King to bump off John Lennon because he would have been able to stop the War on Terror if he had lived. I think that had to be the winner for the DUmbest of all conspiracy theories.
I think that I've seen this guy. There used to be a protestor that would set up shop in the middle of downtown Bangor, ME. Claimed that Steven King had Lennon assassinated, or something.
He was sort of a local curiosity. Could be counted on to set up when the weather started to get good (May/June) and be gone by the time the weather started to get bad (Sept/Oct).
This was 20 or more years ago. I figured that he was long gone by now. Maybe not.